Asus Crosshair III Formula - Manual (Page 95)

ROG Crosshair III Formula 3-21
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [IDE]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration. This item appears only when you set the
OnChip SATA Channel item to [Enabled].
[IDE] Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
[RAID] Set to [RAID] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the
SATA hard disk drives.
[AHCI] Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the
AHCI (Advabced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the
onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that
increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the
drive to internally optimize the order of commands.
�.4.5 Storage Configuration
The items in this menu allow you to set or change the configurations for the SATA
devices installed in the system. Select an item then press if you want to
configure the item.
BIOS SETUP UTILITY
Main
Storage Configuration
OnChip SATA Channel [Enabled]
OnChip SATA Type [IDE]
Options
Disabled
Enabled